American Quotes

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I love being in a band.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I don't exist without writing.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.

I have always been a workaholic.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.